MR W. J. JORDAN HONOURED

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23393, 7 January 1938, Page 13

MR W. J. JORDAN HONOURED

GUEST OF CARTER. PATERSON PAINTED VAN 1000 (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, Dec. 15. Some time before Mr W. J. Jordan (High Commissioner) left England to settle in New Zealand he worked for the well-known delivery Arm of Carter, Paterson and Co. He was a painter, and it fell to his lot to paint the one thousandth van sent out on the roads by the company. This week Mr Jordan was the guest of honour at an informal luncheon given by the directors of Carter, Paterson and Co., and there were present Mr James Paterson, managing director, the general managers of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, the London and North-Eastern Railway, the Great Western Railway, and Southern Railway, and Captain R. G. England, who recently visited New Zealand. Before luncheon Mr Jordan was led to a window. Outside he saw a onehorse delivery van. On it was painted “ One Thousand, William Jordan.” It was the van that Mr Jordan had painted years ago!